A Long Time Ago/20 Myrick
Myrick
This page is part of A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families, the chunked book edition on the Wally Atkins Family Wiki.
- Book section: Myrick
- Page range in the book: 144-149
- Chunk order: 20 of 36
This section has been lightly cleaned and reconstructed from the working transcript seam where the Rivers-to-Myrick handoff is preserved most clearly. It keeps the strongest readable Myrick material and the line's direct relevance to the later Ellington, Paynter, and Atkins branch.
Source note
- Book: A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families
- Transcript source used: `019-myrick.md`
- Editorial note: the surviving transcript begins in Rivers material and transitions into the Myrick-relevant generations. This page focuses on the segment where the Myrick connection becomes direct and clear.
Cleaned import
The Myrick branch matters in this book because it enters the direct family path through Nancy Myrick, wife of Joshua Rivers, and therefore helps carry the line forward into Ellington, Paynter, and ultimately the later Atkins family.
Nancy Myrick
The key lineal point in the chapter is that Joshua Rivers, born about 1760 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, married Nancy Myrick, daughter of Owen Myrick and Fanny Nicholson Myrick. The book notes that Fanny was the daughter of Joshua Nicholson, making Joshua Rivers and Nancy Myrick cousins within the broader family web.
This is one of the places where the book shows how intermarriage within a connected Virginia and North Carolina kin network shaped the later branch.
Joshua Rivers and Nancy Myrick in Warren County
The chapter says that in 1778, Joshua Rivers was deeded 100 acres on the road to Malone's Mill in Bute County, North Carolina (later Warren County). The book notes that this was in the same general area as the Ellington patent and near Mt. Auburn Church Cemetery.
Joshua's will was made in Warren County on June 2, 1823 and recorded in February 1826.
The line forward through Joshua Rivers Jr.
The chapter says Joshua Rivers and Nancy Myrick had a son, Joshua Rivers Jr., born around 1785, who married Rebecca Glover. They had a daughter, Elizabeth (Bettsy) Rivers, born around 1805.
Elizabeth Rivers married John Ellington on July 31, 1834. Their daughter Frances Ellington later married Thomas Paynter. Through that marriage, the Myrick line enters the family branch that leads to Adelia Jackson Paynter, who married Joseph Henry Atkins.
Why Myrick matters
The Myrick chapter matters because it helps explain how the later Paynter and Atkins branch was built not just from one straight line, but from the repeated rejoining of nearby families in Virginia and North Carolina.
Through Nancy Myrick, the line connects:
- Nicholson
- Rivers
- Ellington
- Paynter
- and eventually the later Atkins branch
Context notes
- Myrick works best when read together with A Long Time Ago/17 Rivers, A Long Time Ago/16 Ellington, and A Long Time Ago/22 Nicholson.
- The most important figure here is Nancy Myrick, not a long independent Myrick pedigree.
- The transcript seam also exposes the next chapter handoff into Barne, which may be useful for later recovery work.
Related pages
- A Long Time Ago/16 Ellington
- A Long Time Ago/15 Paynter
- Mt. Auburn Church Cemetery
- Adelia Jackson Paynter
- Joseph Henry Atkins
- A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families
